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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Feilding, New Zealand · 2005

New Zealand: Christian Brother Andrew Cody convicted of sexually abusing sick and vulnerable boys in his care at Hato Pāora College

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Andrew Cody, Christian Brother on staff at Hato Pāora College, a Catholic Māori boys' boarding school, Feilding, New Zealand, 1981-1984

Organization

Congregation of Christian Brothers, New Zealand, Hato Pāora College

Spiritual nexus

Cody's victims were boarding-school boys, some specifically singled out while sick and dependent on his care, at a Catholic institution staffed by the Christian Brothers where his religious-order standing was inseparable from his custodial role.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2005-01-01 · conviction and sentence

    New Zealand court. Cody, then 67, was jailed for two and a half years for sexually abusing sick and vulnerable boys in his care at Hato Pāora College between 1981 and 1984.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • residential boarding-school authority over boys, including specific access to those who were sick and under his direct care
  • religious-order status inside a Christian Brothers-staffed Catholic institution

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting court reporting NZ Herald, reporting on Hato Pāora College abuse cases including Andrew Cody's 2005 conviction.

Confirms Cody's 2005 sentence of two and a half years for abusing sick and vulnerable boys in his care at the college between 1981 and 1984.

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